How Did The Second Vatican Council Change

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The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), as stated by Hobson and Welbourne (2002), is seen as a catalyst for major change in the “discourse of religious education”. Religious educators have found it necessary to change not only what they teach, but more importantly, how they teach it to make accommodations for the changes in society that have included the impact of early Catholic schools and the shift from lay to religious teachers. These changes have also included secular theories from the doctrinal approach to the education approach, increases in population due to immigration, multicultural influences generated by this change in population and finally families who no longer have strong ties to parish communities. To appreciate the state

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